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HIST 107
EXAM 1/ EXAM 2
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Medieval Studies
Undergraduate 1
04/26/2012

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Third-century Christian martyr in Africa:
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Perpetua
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In the late 700s, Charlemagne waged brutal "wars of conversion" against these people:
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Saxons
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The missi dominici  represented imperial authority in the:
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Carolingian Empire
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Who started the Frankish Merovingian dynasty:
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None of these

(Merovech father of Childeric I and grandfather of Clovis I)

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When did the Visigoths sack the city of Rome:
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410
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Who wrote The City of God :
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Augustine of Hippo
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This sixth-century Byzantine emperor reformed law codes, and tried to reconquer portions of the Western Roman Empire:
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Justinian
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In which year did the Treaty of Verdun divide the Carolingian Empire:
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843
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This pope wrote the Pastoral Rule, and Moralia in Job, and sent missionaries to England:
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Gregory the Great
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From which apostle did the popes of Rome claim to derive their spiritual authority:
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Peter
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"Cenobites" and "Anchorites" are two different kinds of what:
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monks
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Name the rule that formed the principle basis for early medieval monastic life in Europe:
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Benedictine Rule
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Name the sixth-century Frankish queen and saint, described by Venantius Fortunatus:
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St. Radigund
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Historians use this term to describe the reciprocal bonds of dependency between "those who fight," based on the granting of land for service:
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Feudalism
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This "movement" marked the effort of tenth-century monks and clerics to limit lordly violence:
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Cluniac Reform Movement
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In which year was the Magna Carta issued:
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1215
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In which year was the Fourth Lateran Council held:
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1215
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Who wrote the Decretum, or Concordance of Discordant Canons, c. 1140:
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Gratian
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In 1112-1115, a revolt by a commune against the local bishop happened in:
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Laon
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Who is generally considered the first "reforming" pope:
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Gregory VII
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When did the Concordant of Worms resolve (in the immediate sense) the Investiture Conflict:
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1122
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Who was condemned by the papacy for public preaching in the later twelfth century:
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Peter Waldo
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This emperor was excommunicated by Gregory VII during the Investiture Conflict: 
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Henry IV
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What city became a center for the study of law during the High Middle Ages:
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Bologna
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This text offered a sweeping view of papal power and authority under Pope Gregory VII:
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Dictatus papae
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This "book" compiled a detailed inventory of the English countryside after the Norman invasion of England in 1066:
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Domesday Book
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Name the twelfth-century monastic order that called for a return to the original spirit of the Benedictine rule, rejecting the wealth and elaborate rituals of Clungy:
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Cistercian
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This term denotes the Catholic belief that the Eucharistic bread and wine become the flesh and blood of Christ:
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transubstantiation
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The Bayeux Tapestry offered a narrative depiction of what event:
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Battle of Hastings
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Works by this classical Greek philosopher, rediscovered in the High Middle Ages, played a critical role in the development of scholasticism:
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Aristotle
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